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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

HUGH MOFARLANE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOUND-SO CKET FOR VEHlCLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,313, dated May 8, 1883,

Application filed December 23, 1881.

which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to that class called .hound and reach socket, the same being an improvement upon the common method of securing the ends of a hound or reach to the axle.

My invention has several elongated leaves, which lie flat against and are bolted to three sides of a hound or reach and merge into a common stern, which describes three sides of a square in cross-section, the whole of which is secured to the axle or axle-bed by means of bolts passing through several lugs or ears projecting laterally from the closed end of said socket.

The advantages of such a socket are obvious, first, because it forms a strong, firm connection, which materially strengthens that part of the running-gear; second, because it avoids inortising the axle, thereby weakening the same and diminishing its carrying powers; and, third, because it avoids rattling.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the socket. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, showing the manner in which it is clipped or fastened to the axle; and Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the socket on the line 00 ac in Fig. 2. p

In the drawings, A represents the axle of any vehicle to which it is desired to apply my invention. At that point of the axle which receives the hound or reach 0, and extending laterally in the direction of length of said hound or reach, is a socket, B, the same being composed of three leaves, I) and b b, which lie flat on the top and against two sides of the hound, the top leaf, 1), being longer than the side leaves, I) b, which are equal in length. These leaves run in the same direction and (No model.)

| merge into a stem, N, which describes three sides of a square in cross-section, as shown in Fig. 3, and which is closed at its end, so as to bear flat against the axle. Extending laterally from said stem, and, if desired, extending downward from the same, are lugs b b ,perforated near their extremities to receive the bolts 0 0, thus securing said socket B in its proper place against the axle. The end of the hound (l is inserted in the-socket B and secured therein by bolts passing through perforations in said leaves and hound. The bolts (1 (Z, passing through the top leaf, b, pass downward through the hound and the plate B, said plate being secured flatly against the under side of the bound opposite, and being about the same length as the leaf 1;. It runs longitudinally on said hound to a point, e, where, leaving the hound, it pursues an oblique course to and across the under side of the axle, being perforated in its outer end to receive and be secured by the clip E. That portion of the plate D running across the under side of the axle is properly a clip-bar, whereas from the point where it leaves the axle to its inner extremity on the bound or reach it serves as a brace. However, it will be noticed that the whole plate serves both as a clip-bar and brace irrespective of any line of demarkation from the one to the other. The clip E, straddling the axle, has its outer leg, g, screw-threaded, to pass through the perforation in the end of the plate D and receive the nut g. The other and inner leg, h, takes an oblique course from the top of the axle-bed down through the socket and hound, striking and passing through that part of the plate D between the point e and the under and inner edge of the axle at right angles, and being secured thereto by the nut h, said leg h being screw-threaded to receive the same.

Having described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The means hound or reach, consisting of a socket having three leaves which converge into a common stem, which embrace the top and two sides of the bound, 2. plate placed on the under side of said hound opposite to the upper leaf of the for connecting the ends of a 5 ICC socket, of a plate on the under side of said I hound or reach, corresponding in position to the upper leaf of the socket, and pursuing an oblique course from a given point on said hound or reach to and passing across the under side of the axle, being secured thereto by a clip, as and for the purpose hereinbcfore specifically set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I hereto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HUGH MOFARLANE. Witnesses:

JAMES H. GoYNE, FRANK D. THoMAsoN. 

